5/13/2023 0 Comments The rooster bar review![]() ![]() Rackley owns a network of banks, schools and law firms, designed to enrich him at the expense of ambitious millennials. ![]() The story begins with three friends, Mark Frazier, Todd Lucero, and Zola Maal, enrolled at the aptly named Foggy Bottom Law School, a dubious institution run by investor Hinds Rackely, who seems to be the academic equivalent of a payday loan predator. Fans of rapid, sharp plot twists will not be disappointed, but perhaps the most satisfying aspect of this page-turner is the audacious thumb-in-the-eye the novel delivers to corrupt banking interests exploiting idealistic students to saddle them with worthless degrees and crushing debt. ![]() Bright lines are crossed and ethical boundaries obliterated in John Grisham’s newest legal thriller, The Rooster Bar. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Whether Samantha Irby is talking about how her difficult childhood has led to a problem in making “adult” budgets explaining why she should be the new Bachelorette (she's "35-ish, but could easily pass for 60-something") detailing a disastrous pilgrimage-slash-romantic-vacation to Nashville to scatter her estranged father's ashes sharing awkward sexual encounters or dispensing advice on how to navigate friendships with former drinking buddies who are now suburban moms (hang in there for the Costco loot!) she’s as deft at poking fun at the ghosts of her past self as she is at capturing powerful emotional truths. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER This essay collection from the bitches gotta eat blogger, writer on Hulu’s Shrill, and one of our country’s most fierce and foulmouthed authors (Amber Tamblyn, Vulture) is sure to make you alternately cackle with glee and cry real tears. ![]() "A sidesplitting polemicist for the most awful situations.”- The New York Times This essay collection from the “bitches gotta eat” blogger, writer on Hulu’s Shrill and HBO's And Just Like That, and “one of our country’s most fierce and foulmouthed authors” (Amber Tamblyn, Vulture) is sure to make you alternately cackle with glee and cry real tears. ![]() ![]() ![]() Readers should laugh along with the antics, empathize with Farmer Bob's dismay, and cheer in the end when Moby's skills finally come in handy. Readable rhyming couplets set up the action. Praise for Ninja on the Farm (Scholastic Reader, Level 1: Moby Shinobi):"Colorful digital artwork with an animation aesthetic depicts farm animals and humans alike. Certain to stealthily jump off the shelves into readers' hands, ninja-style." - School Library Journal The art shows lots of movement and will likely inspire everyone's finest ninja moves. Amusing and accessible." - Kirkus Reviews"This is a great easy reader that illustrates that everyone can be helpful in the right situation. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Post Office by Charles Bukowski![]() During this time, Chinaski/Bukowski worked as a mail carrier for a number of years. It covers the period of Bukowski's life from about 1952 to his resignation from the United States Postal Service three years later, to his return in 1958 and then to his final resignation in 1969. Post Office introduces Bukowski's autobiographical anti-hero, Henry Chinaski. Writing and publication Īn autobiographical account of Bukowski's years working as a carrier and sorter for the United States Postal Service, the novel is "dedicated to nobody". Chinaski drifts from place to place, surviving through booze and women, with his biting sense of humor and a cynical view of the world. In Los Angeles, California, down-and-out barfly Henry Chinaski becomes a substitute mail carrier he quits for a while and lives on his winnings at the race track, then becomes a mail clerk. The film rights to the novel were sold in the early 1970s, but a film has not been made thus far. ![]() The book is an autobiographical memoir of Bukowski's years working at the United States Postal Service. Post Office is the first novel written by the German-American author Charles Bukowski, published in 1971. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments The Genesis by Peprah Boasiako![]() reviews: I just love this book its the kind of book u start and can't stop reading it I give this book a 5 star all the way keep up the good work Peprah Boasiako and keep them comin. ![]() Sometimes, it’s your job to tell an author the work is not ready for the general public yet, sometimes you enjoy a book and suggest tweaks that could make it work more effectively. Venice started to see itself as the imperial successor of Constantinople and the Doge (long ago the Roman duke in charge of the city) took on some of the trappings of an emperor. Provides information for both assessment and management of connective tissue dysfunction. This book would be great for Christians who'd like a feel-good pseudo-science book. Maggy had been through a lot with her father and her husband. The sad times were so moving, I again had to put the book down to think about what I had just read or to cry over it. ![]() Download book The Genesis (Back 2 My Rootz Book 1) Pdf Epub. ![]() ![]() Looking at the Constitution, Vorenberg writes, “Most Republicans shared Bates’s preference for some method of emancipation that left the constitutional text untouched” (pg. But not because it is bad writing, but because it is good writing and challenges the reader. Stories like this can be inspiring, if you still have some fight left in you. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Fat cat by robin brande![]() I don’t want to give away too much, but I’m going to have to tell you more than what’s on the back cover because that is very vague which is all well and good, but don’t read on if you are very very anti-spoiler.Īt the start of the book, everybody in Mena’s group of friends, who all happen to be from her church, hates her for doing the right thing in a situation where that meant going against what her friends did. Including this book, of which I intended to read a chapter of before going to bed but ended up reading the whole thing. My mind is too busy, with various things, to sleep. I was going to wait and blog about this one tomorrow, but I couldn’t sleep (yes, I’m still up at 5:30 AM), so forgive me for any fuzziness/mistakes in this post, as I haven’t slept since yesterday. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments On chesil beach review book![]() ![]() Tempers fray when an awkward attempt by Edwards to consummate his marriage with his new wife, is met with utter disgust and anger by the usually calm and collected Florence. As they politely interact with one another before sitting down for a formal dinner, it soon transpires that all isn’t well in the young couple’s relationship. It’s the summer of 1962 and Florence Ponting (Saoirse Ronan) and Edward Mayhew (Billy Howle) are newly married and about to spend their first honeymoon night together in a small hotel on Chesil Beach, Dorset. ![]() Adapted from McEwan’s book of the same name, and from a screenplay by the author himself, Dominic Cooke’s latest feature film On Chesil Beach brilliantly conveys all of those repressed feelings and more in this compelling yet flawed adaptation. His deeply flawed and achingly complex protagonists not only make for an interesting study in repressed emotion, heartache and missed opportunities, but they also manage to install a feeling of visceral awkwardness in his readers. Nobody does “stiff upper lip” and awkward conversations as expertly as writer Ian McEwan. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Salvation on sand mountain![]() ![]() ![]() The book thus follows in the genre of the documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee, who pioneered the aesthetic/ experiential form of non-fiction filmmaking by setting out to document a time and place but ultimately turning the camera on himself and his own experience of it. The author becomes so immersed in the world of snake-handling that he himself becomes one. What begins as an objective exercise in describing this peculiar region and its religions practices quickly becomes a personal exercise in reflection and faith. Salvation on Sand Mountain by Dennis Covington is a work of non-fiction that sets out initially to objectively describe a time and place-the rural South in the early 1990s, specifically the part of the rural South in which snake-handling is practiced by Christian sects. Finding Faith in Salvation on Sand Mountain ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() JS Cooper’s debut novel in the “Forever Love” series the “Last Boyfriend” is a captivating romance story about Lucky Morgan. She currently lives with her dog Oliver in California. ![]() A true romantic, JS Cooper still writes romances and discusses them with her readers on her website. Most of her novels are new adult contemporary romance novels that have been highly rated on a variety of platforms such as Amazon Kindle and Goodreads. ![]() Some of her most popular series include “The Ex Games,” a series tagged with tycoon, alpha male, bad boys, and super-rich hero, and the “Forever Love” books which are a new adult series with young adult and college tropes. Since then, Jamie Cooper has published more than eighty romance titles in twenty-two series, novellas, single standing novels, collections, and omnibuses. Jamie Cooper published “Scarred” the first novel of the “Scarred” series in 2013 that she followed up with “Healed” in the same year. However, she decided not to pursue the law as she believed she was better suited to a career as a romance author. In the US, she went to college for her bachelor’s before she proceeded to study law. Aged seventeen, her family moved to the United States from where she completed her schooling. Cooper was born and raised in London, England and from a very young age loved to read and write romances. JS Cooper is a Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and New York Times bestselling author of romance novels. 202 Cherry Popper Way (By:Penelope Wylde) ![]() ![]() ![]() Where is the sex in crime fiction? It’s a question I think about every seven seconds-I mean, a lot. Sara Gran, Book of the Most Precious Substance (Dreamland Books) This is Slocum’s first novel and I hope not his last. The story of an African-American violinist whose beloved and valuable Stradivarius is stolen delves into the world of art theft and the world of classical music and comes up with something that feels fresh and original. ![]() Slocum’s book, however, is something I cannot hype enough. Plenty of buzz books (that is an industry term) are not that buzzy when you look beyond the blurbs and the cover art. Pek’s book is funny in a sly way and smart in the way it explores the intersection between identity and technology.īrendan Slocumb, The Violin Conspiracy (Anchor Books) When one of her clients goes missing, Claudia uses the skills she’s developed from years of mystery reading to try and find him. So she lands a job at The Verifiers, a referrals only online-dating detective agency. Pek has a neat premise: her protagonist, Claudia Lin, is an Asian-American trying to sidestep her family’s expectations: she does not want to become a lawyer or marry someone her mother fixed her up with (actually, she prefers girls). ![]() |